Daily Wire Backstage: Barbiegate and other Kenspiracies.
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1 hour and 23 minutes
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222.01653
Summary
Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, and Matt Walsh discuss the latest batch of indictments against Donald Trump, Hunter Biden, and Julian Zelizer, and the fact that Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still alive and well.
Transcript
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We've got a lot. Man, do we have a lot to talk about tonight.
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We've obviously got to talk about Barbie, the most important issue.
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We've got to talk about Hunter Biden. We've got to talk about 2024.
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And then we will chat with you in the member block after the public part of the show.
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Then we can get into all the really juicy stuff.
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The breaking news, of course, is that Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
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And Donald Trump has been indicted a few more times, I guess, for something.
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I don't know. He put too much mayonnaise on his sandwich.
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I mean, on the legal basis, these are very, very large legal stretches.
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They're charging him on a conspiracy to defraud the government.
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Typically, that means financially defrauding the government.
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Like, if you try to steal money from the federal government,
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they're claiming that that extends to trying to affect election processes,
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which is a real stretch and going to be very difficult to fulfill by the elements of the law.
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They're charging him with obstruction of justice,
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suggesting that he tried to interfere with an official government proceeding.
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Again, that's going to be a bit of a stretch because it's going to be hard to show
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that he actively attempted to overthrow the election
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rather than exercising his free speech rights in pursuit of a specious legal theory.
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I honestly thought that this legal theory might be good,
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and I'm allowed to pursue that because this is still America,
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He's being charged also with civil rights violations.
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The idea here is that he is attempting to essentially have votes thrown out.
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So usually this charge is brought when you literally stuff a ballot box
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or you take a box of ballots and you throw them in the river
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or dead people vote in 1960 and make John F. Kennedy president.
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And then there's a fourth charge that is, again, related to the idea
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that he put together false slates of electors and then attempted to submit that.
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The difficulty in proving any of these cases is multifold.
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The first one is that as an element of the case,
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you have to prove somehow that Donald Trump knew for a fact that he had lost the election,
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and thus all subsequent efforts were not dedicated toward attempting
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but actively were an attempt to subvert a thing that he knew was not true.
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Well, as I've said, the problem with Trump is that trying to establish intent crimes
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with Trump is incredibly difficult because Donald Trump actually believes the thing
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So it is quite plausible that that night he thought he had lost,
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and by the next morning he thought that he had won.
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That sort of thing is not unusual with Trump ever.
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We've seen him switch in real time his positions and believe it both times.
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So intent crimes are very, very difficult to charge with Donald Trump.
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Again, the charges in law are a large-scale stretch.
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January 6th gets mentioned multiple times here.
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I didn't tell people to invade the Capitol building.
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I told them to peacefully protest at the Capitol building.
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You may be angry at me that I didn't tell them to get out,
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but I didn't make them go in in the first place.
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So that doesn't actually count as a conspiracy.
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You've shown no actual proof that I told the Oath Keepers to go in
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And, again, I believe this thing is being charged in front of a federal judge
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which means presumably a very unfriendly federal judge.
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I'm not sure which district this is being charged in, actually.
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So, obviously, that means that he's at a real disadvantage in this case
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because a D.C. jury is going to be a lot less friendly to him
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And that's basically what I assume Jack Smith is counting on here.
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So then the question becomes how long the trial actually takes.
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but it should be delayed until after the election.
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The reason that he's going to be able to say that
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listen, I have at least two major ongoing legal cases.
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And then I also have the classified documents case
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and I'm probably going to get indicted in Georgia.
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And how do you expect me to simultaneously perform four defenses
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So really what you should do is you should delay this trial
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We already know that the Florida trial is likely to begin
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So that means that you'll probably get a verdict in that trial
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is the most dangerous case to Trump on a legal level.
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and it's a Trump judge who's presiding over it.
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He's going to make the case essentially to the jury
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and because they didn't charge Hillary Clinton.
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They're trying to stop me in the middle of an election cycle.